Todd Lyons wrote: > > Then that is not a client, it is a server. He's using client/server in > the context of the services that are running, you are using > client/server in the context of the physical machine. The basic fact is > that if machine A is exporting an nfs mount to machine B, then machine A > is a server and machine B is a client. If you are also exporting an fs > mount from machine B to machine C, then machine B is also a server.
as well as a client, yes? You seem to be confused as well - "if machine A is exporting an nfs mount to machine B, then machine A > is a server and machine B is a client" Unlike in real life, an nfs "permission to >mount" export never leaves its machine and therefore is NOT itself exported. It is >only consulted (as a client?) when another machine requests nfs mount access to some >part of its file tree. At that time it, the client, either gives or declines access >to the incoming mount request. We are talking about the Mandrake installer. If I say no servers, then this MACHINE is not a server MACHINE to any other MACHINE. I do not recollect any installer checkbox under servers for nfs. Would it not be simplest to move exportfs and /etc/exports setup from nfs-utils to nfs-utils-client and rename nfs-utils to nfs-utils-server? But thanks anyway. -- Ron. [au]
